Hopefully there is another country that has search and rescue vessels in the Indian Ocean..

Although except for the Hudson river, survivors are rare when a plane goes down in a large body of water.

Wow, it's amazing the ammount of planes that are going down in the year. I see a rise in plane related catastrophies.

My heart goes out to the friends and families of those people onboard. Hopefully some survivors will be found.

~Keeper

Government officials state they are unsure if there are any survivors? and the location where it has went down is still unknown,

Very sad indeed, More updates will follow..

The location was not immediately known, but a medical worker in the town of Mitsamiouli, on the main island Grande Comore, said he had been called into the local hospital."They have just called me to come to the hospital. They said a plane had crashed," he told Reuters.

[edit on 29-6-2009 by asala]

OMG not another plane. When are airline companies, going to get thier acts together tomake sure thier planes are safe for people to travel on.

Im sure it will in some ways if this indeed turns out to be another Air bus. Im sure its going to raise some concern of the safety of these planes, The french crash has opened up a whole load of questions..


And just a little about the area its thought to have went down near,

The Comoros are located about half way from the coast of eastern Africa to the northern tip of Madagascar and has some 800,000 inhabitants.

Another plane...... Damn.

When the passenger list is released there will be more speculation. Weather conditions ?
Was it an Airbus?
How far south is this crash compared to the Air France crash ?

If this keeps happening , it has to be suss, i thought aircraft technology has risen to great new heights.

I got to fly next week

I skydive regularly, i dont mind jumping out of planes, but trusting them from takeoff to landing.... geez

Also like the Air France flight, seems like it happened relatively close to the Equator.

I am interested to see how close and whether it was headed towards the equator or headed away from it.

Could be a myriad of things.

Originally posted by tothetenthpower
Wow, it's amazing the ammount of planes that are going down in the year. I see a rise in plane related catastrophies.

My heart goes out to the friends and families of those people onboard. Hopefully some survivors will be found.

~Keeper

Electromagnetic spikes? And so they begin....

Airbus will be scrambling for excuses!

Hopefully it is coincidental and there's nothing more to it. With the amount of increasing air traffic in the world, it stands to reason that there will be more crashes.

There sure have been a lot of plane crashes this year. It seems like there's a plane crash every couple of days.